Nottingham Trent University, School of Art & Design - Achievements

Achievements from staff and courses within Nottingham Trent University's School of Art & Design, Nottingham, UK.

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BLOC ASSEMBLY

Ben Judd (Fine Art) is participating in Bloc Assembly with Compass Live Art at Bloc Projects Sheffield. He will be working with with Faye Green, a 2013 graduate from Fine Art at Newcastle University. Bloc Assembly creates a short-term, experimental platform to support the work of two artists at different points in their careers, whose practices incorporate performance and live elements in different ways. Judd and Green will be using the space to test or develop work in progress with an audience, and a dinner and round-table discussion will draw their work in relation to wider questions surrounding process in live art and performance and their distinction/intersection with other fields.

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STITCH &amp; PEACOCK

A solo exhibition by Danica Maier (Fine Art) combining drawings, stitch and wall drawing with a selection of embroidery and textile pieces from The Usher Gallery collection, Lincoln, UK.
26 Sep 2014 - 11 Jan 2015
Taking a rarely seen embroidered Jacobean bedspread as a starting point, Maier has created a series of new works, including a large wall drawing which are rooted within the Lincolnshire textile collection, and the history of embroidery.

Craig Fisher has curated a new show for Mrs Ricks Cupboard, Primary, Nottingham. It features work by Sean Edwards. The Private View is at 7pm on 30 October and the exhibition continues until 12 December

THE ITALIC I

Emma Cocker (Fine Art) & her collaborator Clare Thornton (a participant in the NTU Fine Art Summer Lodge) have a new exhibition at project space plus in Lincoln from 3rd November.
The Italic I is a collaborative interdisciplinary project by Emma Cocker and Clare Thornton, comprising new sculptural, time-based and textual works for exhibition, animated by a series of live events. Within The Italic I, Cocker and Thornton approach the gallery as gymnasium, a training space for exploring the different states of potential made possible through voluntarily surrendering to the event of a repeated fall. The Italic I involves an attempt to slow and extend the duration of falling in order to suspend and elaborate upon its discrete phases or scenes, which in turn sheds light on the process of artistic collaboration itself and the making of meaning within creative labour.

Joanne Lee (Fine Art) has an essay entitled Nine Rather Disconnected Paragraphs: on mental health, capitalism, creative education and the politics of friendship in a new publication from curatorial duo Lloyd-Wilson.

It forms part of '37 pieces of flair' a 3 part season of arts and cinema starting with 4 film screenings at The Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, followed by a publication launch and concluding with an exhibition and events programme at The NewBridge Project, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Unlike other mental health themed film seasons or exhibitions, '37 pieces of flair' will focus its attention less upon the individual stories of enduring mental health problems and rather take a step back in an attempt to grasp a broader look at, or investigation of, the society and its culture from which they emerge.

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SONOPHILIA CONFERENCE

Rob Flint (Fine Art) presented a short talk on the context of the work 'Flock Mnemonics' in the Sonophilia Conference at Bishop Grossetest University at 11.15 on Friday 24th October 2014.

Duncan Higgins will be exhibiting, testing and developing new visual material along with Sue Brind and Shauna McMullen from Glasgow School of Art, in the Reid Gallery at GSA between 16th - 21st September.
This has resulted from a residency carried out during the summer of 2014 in Odda, Norway and the Orkney Islands.

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PUBLICATION ON 3-D

Early research by Andrew Pepper (Fine Art) has been acknowledged in a new book: 3D, History, Theory and Aesthetics of the Transplane Image by Jens Schröter

Published by Bloomsbury in Volume 6 of the International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics, Pepper's work is referenced in the chapter Since 1948: Holography.

The publishers also used one of Andy's drawings as the main book cover illustration.